{"id":14344,"date":"2024-03-16T21:51:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T16:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/16\/hillcrest-country-club-faces-lawsuit-over-alleged-discrimination-membership-bias\/"},"modified":"2024-03-16T21:51:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T16:21:11","slug":"hillcrest-country-club-faces-lawsuit-over-alleged-discrimination-membership-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/16\/hillcrest-country-club-faces-lawsuit-over-alleged-discrimination-membership-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillcrest Country Club Faces Lawsuit Over Alleged Discrimination, Membership Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_82\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>The Hillcrest Country Club, frequented by Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, faced scrutiny this week as a lawsuit accused the club of perpetuating racist practices, according to RadarOnline.com.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, filed on Monday in Los Angeles, painted the Los Angeles club as a \u201cracist aristocracy\u201d with \u201cdepraved standards,\u201d outlining allegations of discriminatory behavior. Matthew Winnick, son of late telecommunications tycoon Gar Winnick, filed the suit, claiming retaliation for speaking out against the club\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n<p>One major accusation focused on the treatment of club staff, with claims of a \u201cplantation-like essence\u201d perpetuated by predominantly Hispanic employees serving primarily white members. \u201cPerhaps no institution embodies the racial disparities and resistance to change more starkly than the infamous Hillcrest Country Club,\u201d read Winnick\u2019s complaint.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/radaronline.com\/p\/kamala-harris-country-club-racism-disregarding-sexual-assault-lawsuit\/\">lawsuit<\/a> also accused the club of nepotism and neglecting issues like sexual assault and drug abuse. \u201cIt scoffs not only at laws barring discrimination; it also disregards reports of sexual assault and drug abuse,\u201d charged the plaintiff. \u201cIn fact, Hillcrest promotes such unworthy (but racially acceptable) people who so engage and punishes those who complain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Winnick further alleged unfair rejection of his membership application, despite promised priority consideration due to his family\u2019s association and previous payments totaling over $25,000 as an \u201cintermediate\u201d member.<\/p>\n<p>                    <!--begin code --><\/p>\n<p>                    <!--end code --><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/hillcrest-country-club-faces-lawsuit-over-alleged-discrimination-membership-bias\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hillcrest Country Club, frequented by Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, faced scrutiny this week as a lawsuit accused the club of perpetuating racist practices, according to RadarOnline.com. The lawsuit, filed on Monday in Los Angeles, painted the Los Angeles club as a \u201cracist aristocracy\u201d with \u201cdepraved standards,\u201d outlining allegations of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}